flue-faker
English
Noun
flue-faker (plural flue-fakers)
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A chimney sweep.
- 1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe (volume 3, page 23)
- The gipsy queen, too, of the flue-fakers was just behind in a donkey-tandem, escorted by a bodyguard of thin-legged gentry of the forked-radish pattern, kiddily togged.
- 1883, Lewis Strange Wingfield, Abigel Rowe (volume 3, page 23)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary